Topics & Regions

This area is also referred to as global security with the focus on military and diplomatic measures nations and international organizations such as the NATO and the UN take to ensure global safety and security.

This area focuses on the interaction between geographical perspectives and political processes, examining the impact of regional influences such as geography, economics, and demography, on power relationships and politics.

This area focuses on the foreign policy of states and unions (such as the EU) and their diplomatic and external policies in relation to their objectives, activities, on one hand, and their bilateral or multilateral interactions with other states and other political entities, on the other.

This area focuses on political and socio-economic factors that contribute to the exacerbation of an armed conflict context and the potential peaceful solutions to settle disagreement and de-escalation.

This area focuses on the stability of countries’ political and governmental systems with particular attention to maintenance, political and legal change, civil order, legitimacy and effectiveness.

This area focuses on direct and indirect human rights violations by state, non-state, or state-sponsored actors. Taking the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a basis for our work, we focus on violations to the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education.